...Bad Effects of The Internet On The Teenagers Brent Staples is an editorial writer for the New York Times. In “What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace”, Brent writes about how teenagers nowadays spend too much time on the Internet to communicate with each other, and forget to interact with families and friends in the real life. Using the Internet too much cost the teenagers don’t have socializing, the real world experience that would allow them to leave teenagers behind and grow into adulthood. (Staples 18) I strongly agree with Staples that many teenagers spend too much time on the Internet for chatting and playing online games than for studying and socializing. When teenagers spend too much time on the Internet, they will miss out the experience of talking face-to-face and don’t know how to communicate to a job later. Indeed, the Internet seriously takes away the socializing time of teenagers and makes them don’t have any social skills to communicate with the people in the real world. Over the past few months, I found out Facebook has become increasingly prominent in the lives of UC Davis students. Conversations are no longer made in real life person. Instead, many UC Davis students log in to their free Facebook accounts to communicate with each other. Moreover, I saw many of my friends send messages through Facebook to their next-door neighbor instead of walking a couple steps to meet with their neighbors face-to-face. They are seriously missed out the...
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...Twitter. Facebook. These names stir up feelings, opinions, and experiences in just about all of us. Some love Twitter or Facebook more than life itself, while others merely have a passing fancy in these services. Regardless of the level of involvement, there is no denying the immense popularity of Facebook and Twitter. In July, many websites reported that basketball player Lebron James began a Twitter account just days before he announced his free agency destination. He drew 150,000 followers in 7 hours. Not to be outdone, pop sensation Lady Gaga became the first person on Facebook to reach 10 million fans. As these services rise in popularity, libraries have begun to use them to reach out to patrons. Some libraries use Twitter but not Facebook. Some use Facebook but not Twitter. Some use both Facebook and Twitter, while others use neither. Yes, the popularity of these social networking services does warrant implementation as a way to reach patrons. But, as I had always preferred using Facebook, was there room for Twitter at the table? As I struggled with this issue, many questions occupied my thoughts when discussing libraries and social networking. Should a library choose one over the other? What are the major differences, if any? Does one service have greater value or return on your investment? Was there an easy way to do both? In May 2010, Illinois’ Fremont Public Library, where author Curt Tagtmeier is a reference librarian, began a project that started a Facebook page...
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...has slowly been working its way into people’s everyday life over the past twenty years. Most individuals cannot go a day without checking their Facebook or letting their Twitter followers know what kind of coffee they had to drink that morning. Social media can be either a blessing or a curse to the human race depending on how people look at it. Not only can social media help us connect with new people and become more aware of worldwide issues; on the contrary, it encourages the spread hate and fake...
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...21st century, Facebook. Trust is a good trait to have in some situations, but it can also cause bad things to happen. Many characters in the movie and the play are affected by the trust that they have in others. Although Macbeth and The Social Network have different outcomes, but the idea of being trusting is demonstrated as a negative trait through both productions. People should be more cautious of whom to trust. In both the film and the play,...
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...Festival. Sarah Lynn Butler, took her life because of cyber bullying, she got some bad messages on MySpace saying she was a whore. She got teased every day at school. Cyber bullying is a cruel way of saying things to a person. Sarah Lynn Butler had a bright future and a wonderful road ahead of her. That all got taken away because of messages that weren’t true. Sarah Lynn Butler is very pretty and according to a family member she was sweet and helpful to others. Cyberbullying causes 4,500 kids to take their life at their own hands because of what people tell them over the internet that’s 99% not true. Signs...
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... Research Findings 5 Twitter 5 Pinterest 6 Facebook 7 Recommendations 8 Conclusion 8 References 10 Executive Summary This paper presents findings that support the value and wisdom of using social media as a marketing strategy in business. Social media platforms enable brands to expand in current markets as well as become introduced in new markets. Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook are social media platforms that are widely used to promote a brand, helping to create trust and loyalty between a brand and its consumers. Twitter allows our brand to connect on a more personal level with our consumers. We can interact on a one-on-one basis. Twitter lets us respond to and resolve concerns quickly. It also enables us to be a part of our consumers’ daily lives, reminding them that we are there. Twitter also boosts our brands awareness and visibility. Every time our brand is tweeted about it causes search engines to bump our brand to the top of their search list and attracting potential consumers to our brand. Pinterest affords our consumers a deeper look into our brand. Pinterest is where we can pin boards about the things that appeal to us, the projects we are in the process of doing and future items we would like to invest in. When consumers see a picture or video we have pinned they have the option of liking it or repining it, which in turn exposes our brand to new and larger markets. Facebook has become a household name. It is widely used and our consumers...
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...“How the Facebook age has influenced changes in human behavior.” In the past, many people were limited to who they were able to interact with, and most online communication occurred through electronic mails. The amount of information exchanged was very limited because many computers were not yet capable of holding vast amounts of data and the speed in which the information was transferred was not fast enough. But with the advancement in broadband technology, also came the expansion of communication channels. The thirst for instant communication resulted in the creation of social networks such as Facebook. After its beginning in 2004, Facebook revolutionized the way people interacted with each other online, and gave users the opportunity to directly connect and communicate in a much faster way. Companies can now use the social media platform as a way to advertise their products; people can now instantly let everyone know how they feel, what they ate for breakfast, and that great show they attended the night before with even a picture, and the map of the place it was taken from. Even presidential candidates have used Facebook to promote their campaigns. By being able to connect with more people outside of one’s social circles, people can now expand their network and take their opinion to a much wider audience. Facebook has played an important role in shaping the current generations by creating a direct web of communications between its users all over the world; but with the...
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...Social Networking Tyrone Luckie ENG/147 02/22/2015 Denese Wolff Social Networking Facebook is a tool that people use and share their information with others easier, just as they were using the popular social networking site Myspace before Facebook became popular. Before the social networking sites came into play we mostly communicated via letter mail and taking trips or mini-vacations in order to meet up with lost friends and relatives to reestablish communication with them. With the large amount of us who use Facebook among other social networking sites in order to maintain contact and keep up with our family, friends, co-workers and colleagues that we may have been disconnected with over a period of time. Facebook is one of the many social networking sites that allow us to create a profile and communicate with others privately or publicly. We are also able to share photos and videos from our everyday life experiences in which we see necessary to post, so that our loved ones on our friend’s list can partake in a special event that has taken place in our life. We as parents should set an example for our children and not allow them to see us always using social media in order to communicate with our loved ones all of the time. We need to lead by example, for instance plan a trip during our children’s summer vacation break. Take them to meet some of their family members who live out of town that they do not get to see often. Make a stop along the way that is educational...
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...over by social media. When talking about social media, one cannot discredit the fact that Facebook has become the industry leader. Besides the fact that Facebook has the largest following across the world they now have become a publicly traded company. Nearly a decade ago Mark Zuckerburg set out to connect his fellow classmates at Harvard in a way that no college student has seen before. Well through all of his hard work and dedication Zuckerburg has created the largest social networking site that has forced all others to close their doors. In the industry that Facebook is in there are many competitors that have come along and tried to match what they have been able to accomplish but many have fell short, others have been able to stick around because they have not tried to compete but rather co-exist in the same world and use the same users. 1. Choose the two (2) segments of the general environment that would rank highest in their influence on the corporation you chose. Assess how these segments affect the corporation you chose and the industry in which it operates. When thinking of the segments of the general environment in relation to Facebook, there are two main segments that make sense. For Facebook the social environment would rank the highest right alongside the technological environment. These two segments mean everything to this company because of the industry they are in. Let us begin with the social environment, this company along with the entire industry is very...
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...Social Media and its Influence on our Youth The correlation between the development of youth and social media has become blatant. Although few of the consequences are favorable, the majority have displayed a negative impact. The drive social media can implement on youth is exceptional. The pressure and strain social media can place on our youth is an enduring force which leads individuals to question themselves as a person and feel inclined to fit a norm expressed in media and social media of our society. The underlying force social media can play in the lives of the youth is astonishing and is a force that must be dealt with and controlled, for it not only holds the power to give an individual strength, but also to break them down. Social media is described as content created and shared by individuals on the web using freely available websites that allow users to create and post their own images, video and text information and then share that with either the entire internet or just a select group of friends (Affilorama, 2012). They are more like a website allowing you to express your daily activities, beliefs, locations, likes, dislikes, photos, music, etc. They are used by creating a profile, and logging in through either the website, or apps now used on smartphones, or any portable device with Wi-Fi connection. Although most social media networks are directed towards adults and young adults, young children are getting into these websites as well. There are usually age limits...
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...BASICS OF RESEARCH –II TAUGHT BY- TANYA SARKAR SUBMITED BY- BJ&MC II-A TABLE OF CONTENTS * SYNOPSIS * REVIEW OF LITERATURE * QUESTIONNAIRE * CONCLUSION * BIBLOGRAPHY SYNOPSIS * TOPIC- HAVE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES INCREASED OR DECREASED PERSONAL INTERACTION? * HYPOTHESIS- SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES HAVE CHANGED THE WAY PEOPLE INTERACT * JUSTIFICATION- THE CONTINIOUS USE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES IS HAMPERING PERSONAL INTERACTION BETWEEN PEOPLE. * METHODOLOGY-THE RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED THROUGH PRIMARY AND SECONDARY DATA COLLECTION. IT IS A QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH. * OBJECTIVE-THIS RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED TO NOTE THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES ON PERSONAL INTERACTION. REVIEW OF LITERATURE INTRODUCTION What is a social networking website? A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on facilitating the building of social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web-based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Online community services...
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...A Most Unlikely Friendship Lindsay Webb ENG121 – English Composition Brandon Bond February 24, 2015 A Most Unlikely Friendship It was spring of my last semester studying at a technical college. It has been a long 18 months and the chill of winter had just lifted. I found myself restless and lonely. I had left a long term relationship just before entering school. I had tried dating some, unsuccessfully. I had given up on finding a friend. When I least expected it the friend I wished for would enter my life. The friendship that would then develop between us was anything but ordinary. This friendship would turn out to be the biggest source of compassion and patience I had ever been afforded and it would also be most unconventional in all ways. He never gave up on me. Friendship, patience and love have the ability to heal a broken heart and save a lost and wandering soul. I had recently returned to New Mexico. It was the place I had grown up in. A couple of years after graduation I decided to leave the small towns of south eastern New Mexico and set out for Arizona. I spent the next fifteen years in the desert sun and heat. I had no intention of returning to New Mexico for anything other than a brief visit here and there. I sometimes say, “Too much planning is poor planning.” What I mean by this was that when plans were made and expectations were set and everyone involved just knows this is going to best the best, it inevitably would be a disaster. Everything that can go...
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...and most importantly parents have a huge effect on who we become as adults. Just as most children have it engrained in their memories to always brush their teeth before bed or to make it home before curfew, my parents placed a high priority on continually pursing a Christ-centered life and a Christ centered household. My religious perspective has been the center of my life and is the reason for all of the morals and values that I believe in and follow today. One of the hardest moments in my life was when I was faced with the realization that not everyone shares those same...
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...Facebook (stylized facebook) is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] As of January 2011[update], Facebook has more than 600 million active users.[5][6] Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics. The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other better. Facebook allows anyone who declares themselves to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[7] The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.[8] Entertainment...
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...internet companies such as Facebook? Now, more and more people use social media to connect with their friends and family. Facebook could be the most popular one used by many people from all over the world. Up until 2013, Facebook got up to 1.06 billion monthly active users and 680 million mobile users (Smith, 2013). In terms of internationalization, Facebook successfully launched to the whole world and nowadays, almost all the countries are using Facebook even some poorer country from Africa (Facebook Statistics by Countries, 2013). The company successfully launched to almost all countries because it puts a lot of attention to the differences between each country has so it has succeed in terms of internationalization. First, new features could attract more people to join Facebook since the website is used by people from all over the world and this gives the company opportunity to have the free advertisement from one place to another. For example, in the year of 2013, Facebook just introduces a free call application for their the United States iPhone users and this could attract more people to join Facebook and get them connected to the rest of the world (Hamburger, 2013). From here, we might think this is good only for attracting more users from the United States, but it could attract more people from the rest of the world. Suppose, one person from the United States never had a Facebook before and he now know this free call feature of Facebook and find it is quite a...
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